Your 10 Favourite ...... Clash songs

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Your 10 Favourite ...... Clash songs

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Very tough. And I had to leave many great songs off the list.
Here it is (in random order) :

White Riot
Garageland
Stay Free
Safe European Home
Straight To Hell
London Calling
Death Or Glory
Jail Guitar Doors
Ghetto Defendant
Bankrobber
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Very tough. I could list at least half of London Calling...

London Calling
Spanish Bombs
Magnificent Seven
White Man In Hammersmith Palais
White Riot
Career Opportunities
Straight To Hell
Somebody Got Murdered
I Fought The Law
Know Your Rights

Just missing the cut...

Brand New Cadillac
Clampdown
Julie's Been Working For The Drug Squad
Guns Of Brixton
The Right Profile
Police & Thieves
Charlie Don't Surf
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White Man In Hammersmith Palais
Janie Jones
Wrong 'Em Boyo
Guns of Brixton
London's Burning
Tommy Gun
Lost In The Supermarket
Career Opportunities (Sandinista! version)
Hitsville U.K.
Straight To Hell
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Tommy Gun
London Calling
Charlie Don't Surf
Rock the Casbah
Guns of Brixton
Lost in the Supermarket
Police and Thieves
White Riot
Death or Glory
Clampdown

And pretty much everything else. Thanks for the thread, I've been neglecting the Clash section of my collection. I'll be fixing that today.
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I'm So Bored With The U.S.A
White Riot
London's Burning
Train In Vain
Junco Partner
London Calling
Spanish Bombs
Lost In The Supermarket
The Guns Of Brixton
(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
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Brand New Cadillac
Rudie Can't Fail
Spanish Bombs
Lost In The Supermarket
The Guns Of Brixton
I'm Not Down
Train In Vain
Magnificent Seven
Somebody Got Murdered
Rock The Casbah

Very difficult. I love the first two albums, but all my favourites are pretty much on London Calling.
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1) London Calling
2) Clampdown
3) Train In Vain
4) Death Or Glory
5) Should I Stay Or Should I Go
6) Brand New Cadillac
7) Rudie Can't Fail
8) Jimmy Jazz
9) Rock The casbah
10)Spanish Bombs
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Post by Otis Westinghouse »

Don't think I'll vary much from the above, but I was wondering just the other day about whether the line 'Career opportunities, the ones that never knock' would make sense to people who don't know the TV series. Opportunities don't knock in normal usage, do they?
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The phrase "opportunity knocks" is familiar to most people I would think.
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Otis Westinghouse wrote:Don't think I'll vary much from the above, but I was wondering just the other day about whether the line 'Career opportunities, the ones that never knock' would make sense to people who don't know the TV series. Opportunities don't knock in normal usage, do they?
It's my understanding that "opportunity knocks" is a pretty well-known phrase, even though I've never heard of the TV show.

I did enjoy this film as a youngster, though, so maybe that's it:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100301/
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Now yer talking... 8)

1.Stay Free
2.Rudie Can't faill
3.Janie Jones
3.Armagideon Time (best B-Side ever!!!)
4.Straight to Hell
5.Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad
6.Bankrobber
7.Gates of the West
8.The Right Profile
9.Train in Vain
10.Guns of Brixton....
11.Lost in the Supermarket
12.Clash City Rockers

Shit...there's just so many......the real best ever punk band....miles better than the pistols, and far more prolific.
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Post by crash8_durham »

Jackson Monk wrote:Now yer talking... 8)
5.Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad
Damn I forgot that one. Great song
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Bank Robber
Train in Vain
Lose This Skin
Clampdown
Brand New Cadillac
Should I Stay or Should I Go
Charlie Dont Surf
Hitsville UK
London Calling
Im Not Down
echos myron like a siren
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
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White Man In Hammersmith Palais
London Calling
Guns of Brixton
White Riot
Police & Thieves
Bankrobber
Rockers Galore
Lost In The Supermarket
Stay Free
Safe European Home

This is impossible! There are 30 more that need to be on the list.

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White Man
Guns of Brixton
Lost in Supermkt
Spanish Bombs
London Calling
London's Burning
Garageland
Complete Control
Armagideon Time
Janie Jones

Fairly predictable, but only Blue seems to have had the immortal JJ, and can it really be that no-one's had CC? Wanted Straight To Hell as well.
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Otis Westinghouse wrote: Fairly predictable, but only Blue seems to have had the immortal JJ, and can it really be that no-one's had CC? Wanted Straight To Hell as well.
Can't believe I forgot Complete Control. Damn.
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Post by Mike Boom »

Not a big fan of the first two records, though I like Tommy Gun and its a nice version of Police and Thieves, but I much prefer the Sandinista/London Calling/Black Market Clash stuff.
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Post by crash8_durham »

Forgot Straight To Hell too

good call Otis

this is a tough list
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Much too tough


White Man in Hammersmith Palais
Safe European Home
Tommy Gun
Complete Control
Groovy Times
London's Burning
Clampdown
Death or Glory
Bankrobber
Washington Bullets


and all the ones I left out
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Otis Westinghouse wrote:White Man
Guns of Brixton
Lost in Supermkt
Spanish Bombs
London Calling
London's Burning
Garageland
Complete Control
Armagideon Time
Janie Jones

Fairly predictable, but only Blue seems to have had the immortal JJ, and can it really be that no-one's had CC? Wanted Straight To Hell as well.
Errr.....can I point out that I too had JJ and that I would like due credit Sir Otis of the Shire of Cambridge.
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Otis Westinghouse wrote:... and can it really be that no-one's had CC? ...
Greil Marcus, in one of his books, proclaimed this the greatest rock and roll song of all time. Definitely one of my favorites. It was played at the Forum in the set before the Buzzcocks came on (along with God Save the Queen, Born to Lose and a host of other punk classics) and had the audience singing along - especially the ooooh oooh ooooh part. Don't know if Don Letts was doing the pre set songs, but he was in the house and deejayed for awhile afterwards - we didn't stick around.
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1. Rudie Can't Fail
2. London Calling
3. I'm So Bored With The U.S.A (Boring Personal Story Alert - one of the funniest things I ever experienced, and one of my proudest moments as a parent was the sight of my then 5-or-6-year-old daughter, standing atop the coffee table with a toy guitar slung over her shoulder, singing along and I mean, like belting it out, "What can I doooooo"!)
4. Tommy Gun
5. Janie Jones
6. (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
7. Brand New Cadillac
8. Hateful
9. Jail Guitar Doors
10. Clampdown
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As I noted I would do earlier in the thread, I threw a few Clash CDs in the changer yesterday and what a nice surprise I got! I used to have a very old CD copy of London Calling which basically sounded like crap. I lost very few CDs in Katrina, but one of them was London Calling. A few months ago, I bought a 'digitally remastered' edition but hadn't listened to it yet. What an incredible improvement! Even songs that I was iffy on before sound incredibly fresh and vibrant. If you own an old copy of London Calling, do yourself a favor and buy a newer one for Christmas. In my case, at least, the difference was startling.
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Post by Richard »

This is probably not going to offer much more variety than above, but fun to compile.

(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais - surely their finest moment. No matter what Greil Marcus might say!
Garageland
Police And Thieves
Safe European Home
The Right Profile
I'm Not Down
Straight To Hell
The Call-Up
Wrong 'em Boyo - Love That False Start With Staggerlee!
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